Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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per visit:—(i) cases referred by (ii) children under 5 years of age
(the cost of these cases being chargeable to the M. & C. W. Committee),
(iii) cases of notifiable diseases.
Subjoined is a list of cases nursed under this agreement during the year 1931.
Disease | Under 5 | Visits | Disease | Over 5 | Visits |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abscess of neck | 2 | 15 | Abortion | 5 | 43 |
Abdominal sinus | 1 | 11 | Ante-natal | 6 | 55 |
Aural Diphtheria | 1 | 11 | Influenza | 12 | 99 |
Bronchial pneumonia | 10 | 117 | Mammary abscess | 5 | 103 |
Bronchitis | 6 | 48 | Mastitis | 3 | 35 |
Circumcision | 2 | 15 | Measles | 1 | 6 |
Disease of eyes | 4 | 26 | Measles and | ||
Incision of glands | 2 | 17 | Bronchitis | o | 25 |
Influenza | 2 | 12 | Miscarriage | 9 | 85 |
Injury to eye | 1 | 10 | Parturition | 7 | 98 |
Impetigo | 5 | 85 | Post confinement | 1 | 3 |
Intestinal | 1 | 3 | Post natal | 1 | 3 |
Laparotomy | 1 | 23 | Post Partum | 7 | 92 |
Mastoid | 2 | 27 | Pneumonia | 12 | 171 |
Measles | 19 | 314 | Tuberculosis | 20 | 573 |
Ophthalmia | |||||
Neonatorum | 3 | 72 | |||
Osteo Myelitis | 1 | 19 | |||
Otorrhœa | 20 | 453 | |||
Pemphigus | 5 | 84 | |||
Pertussis | 2 | 31 | |||
Pneumonia | 8 | 104 | |||
Prematurity | 1 | 3 | |||
Pyrexia | 2 | 22 | |||
Rheumatism | 1 | 38 | |||
Septic hands | 1 | 15 | |||
Septic spots on face | 1 | 8 | |||
Septic thumb | 1 | 3 | |||
Septic umbilicus | 1 | 14 | |||
Suppurating' glands | 1 | 19 | |||
Thread worms | 55 | 349 | |||
Tonsils & adenoids | 63 | 232 | |||
Totals | 225 | 2.200 | Totals | 91 | 1,391 |
The total number of cases at all ages was 316, in connection with which
3,591 visits were made by the Nurses of the Association. Amongst persons
over five years there were three deaths from pneumonia and five from tuberculosis,
and amongst the children under five, one died from broncho
pneumonia and tonsillectomy.
Bacteriological Examinations.
With the exception of those carried out at the Tuberculosis Dispensary,
all the examinations made on behalf of the Borough Council are by Dr. F. H.